The Petroleum & Natural Gas Regulatory Board had recently finalised the ninth round of bids under the project and Torrent Gas Private Limited and AG&P LNG Marketing will set up the facilities in Chennai

Even as MNGL had embarked on the piped natural gas project in Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) areas, the state-owned company added over 35,000 new piped natural gas connections in Pune as against 16,000 in the twin towns in the last financial year.

The Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) will shortly launch piped natural gas (PNG) for houses and compressed natural gas (CNG) for transport sector in Patna. The project is coming up as part of the Jagdishpur-Haldia-Bokaro-Dhamra pipeline under Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga Yojana, which will connect the eastern and north-eastern states to the national gas grid, said GAIL public relations executive Jyoti Kumar on Friday.

About 5,700 homes have received PNG connection and two CNG stations have been constructed by state-run gas utility GAIL, while the crematorium at Harishchandra ghat too has been converted to run on clean-burning natural gas.

IGL, which retails CNG to automobiles and piped cooking gas to households in national capital region (NCR), said CNG price in Delhi will be Rs 40.61 per kg and Rs 47.05 in Noida, Greater Noida & Ghaziabad, effective midnight tonight.